Vista + File Transfer

Conrad11

Conrad11

Conrad11

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Hi there,

Is it me or do people find that transferring files takes a lot longer in vista than in XP or before?

I've been googling and I think it has something to do with the "Calculating Remaining Time" crappy thing.

Is there any fix for this yet?

I have auto-update on, has such fix (if it exists) been added to auto-update? If not what are the hotfixes?

Thanks.
 
Yup if you are using the GUI to drag and drop files between locations forget it, it is soooooo slow and frustrating when you have a day job to do!

I cannot understand why Vista is so shocking at such a basic task. This should have been resolved during the Beta phase, I know I reported it in B1, then in B2 and again in the RC!

At work we have installed an XP virtual PC on our vista admin PCs for the purpose of being able effectivly drag files between shares etc. A bit extrere I know but it saves us having to use xcopy / robocopy every time we need to copy a file.

M$ did release 2 patches that should have addressed performance issues which I do not belive come down as part of the automatic update process, however these made no difference in the speed for us!

Here is a link to one of them (I cannot find the other at the moment)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979

I hope this is addressed in SP1
 
Forgot to mention that Q938979 is susposed to fix

"When you copy or move a large file, the "estimated time remaining" takes a long time to be calculated and displayed."

I would be interested if this works in you instance.
 
I actually went back to XP for this very reason.

Everything else about Vista is brilliant, drivers are fast, it looks great and works well.

But when using large files I just ran into a whole load of headaches. I remember downloading a 1.2GB game demo, and trying to extract it.

Explorer crashed. Totally. I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del and kill it, and restart it. But this happened every time I tried to decompress the file.

I didn't realise they had released a hotfix for this though, i'll give Vista a try again at the weekend with the latest updates installed (I assume this particular fix is available via windows update?).
 
bledd. said:
does using something like the 7zip file manager speed up transfers (use the twin-panel view)
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Using a third party program does help, however this problem wasn't isolated for me - it happened whenever I did anything with the file.

I managed to get it out of the zip but whenever I ran it it would still crash explorer (the decompressed file was just a self-extracting archive with a setup program) and force a Ctrl-Alt-Del.

My apologies for not mentioning that before. :)
 
Yeah basically big files are a no no with Vista at present, well for me. Moving my music and films around has almost made me top myself. Don't even think about doing anything over a network, hit the network tranfer bug and you could be stuck at few kb/s. Painstakingly annoying...
 
it's strange, i didn't have the problem a week ago, but now when transferring videos from m gf's laptop over wireless, it gets about 1mb/s (full signal strength)
 
bledd. said:
it's strange, i didn't have the problem a week ago, but now when transferring videos from m gf's laptop over wireless, it gets about 1mb/s (full signal strength)
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thats not too bad,

I get 900kb/S on gigabit lan.

go figure
 
look here
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17767229
SpinningMonkey said:
How to fix the slow file transfers problem in Vista:

When moving from Windows XP to Vista, I noticed that file transfers were much slower. The cause of slow file operations in vista is Remote Differential Compression, we have to disable this feature, so to do so do the following:

Open up Control Panel, then go to Programs and then Programs and Features. Select Turn on or off Windows features on the left hand side. Then uncheck Remote Differential Compression and press ok.

Fix Problems With Copying Large Files in Windows Vista:

If you've been having problems copying large files over mapped drives, network disconnects, or having to reboot your router a lot more often than normal, then you can try out this fix to solve the problem.

The problem stems from the new auto-tuning network, which changes the receive window on the fly. Thankfully we can easily turn it off from an administrative mode command prompt.

Open up the command prompt in administartive mode and then type the following:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

You'll have to reboot your system, but once you do, the problems should be resolved. If they are not you can always turn auto-tuning back on.

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
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With regards to the first point quotes - i have already disabled it and it doesn't help much.

With regards to the second point, that means that you have to refresh every time you rename/delete/add to see the changes made to a share which is a bit crap.

EDIT:

Steady-on, i have just reset it back to "autotuninglevel=normal" and its still not updating the window after renaming etc....how can i make it do that?
 
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Just copying, using Vista, copying files from XP 2.5" to location on my Vista machine it's displaying 600K/sec transfer.
Disabled firewalls, that remote thing..

god it's now saying 6-20 hours to move/copy from internal 3.5" to internal 3.5", 20GB of data.
 
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